Democrats crow about mid-term GOTV efforts in 110 languages. The struggle to learn English has always been a part of the American "melting pot" -- part of what helped our parents/grandparents/great grandparents become "Americans".

Securing the border along with resolving the legal status of Dreamers who have been living in the shadows of America for many years would
build public confidence in the government's ability to manage our immigration system.
Public confidence is the necessary pre-requisite to a comprehensive 21st century immigration reform plan.

It is an axiom of American politics that Americans reject a public health care option. Rhetoric to the contrary: 49.6 percent of the American people get their health care paid for by a government-run insurance program. The dictionary definition of a public option! Instead of railing against it -- why not seize the opportunity?